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It is true. I stand at the door
of your heart, day and night.
Even when you are not listening,
even when you doubt, it could be Me,
I am there.
I await even the smallest sign
of your response, even the least
whispered invitation that will
allow Me to enter.
And I want you to know that
whenever you invite Me,
I do come - always, without fail.
Silent and unseen I come,
but with infinite power and love,
and bringing the many gifts of My Spirit.
I come with My mercy, with My desire
to forgive and heal you, and with a love
for you beyond your comprehension
a love every bit as great as the love
I have received from the Father
("As much as the Father has loved me,
I have loved you..." John 15:10).
I come longing to console you and
give you strength, to lift you up and
bind all your wounds. I bring you My light,
to dispel your darkness and all your doubts.
I come with My power, that I might carry you
and all your burdens; with My grace,
to touch your heart and transform your life;
and My peace I give, to still your soul.
I know you through and through.
I know everything about you.
The very hairs of your head I have numbered.
Nothing in your life is unimportant to Me.
I have followed you through the years,
and I have always loved you - even in your wanderings.
I know every one of your problems.
I know your needs and your worries.
And yes, I know all your sins.
But I tell you again that I love you
not for what you have or haven't done
I love you for you, for the beauty
and dignity My Father gave you
by creating you in His own image.
It is a dignity you have often forgotten,
a beauty you have tarnished by sin.
But I love you as you are, and
I have shed My Blood to win you back.
If you only ask Me with faith,
My grace will touch all that needs
changing in your life, and I will
give you the strength to free yourself
from sin and all its destructive power.
I know what is in your heart
I know your loneliness and all your hurts
the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations,
I carried it all before you.
And I carried it all for you, so you might
share My strength and victory.
I know especially your need for love
how you are thirsting to be loved and cherished.
But how often have you thirsted in vain,
by seeking that love selfishly,
striving to fill the emptiness inside you
with passing pleasures - with the even
greater emptiness of sin.
Do you thirst for love?
"Come to Me all you who thirst..." (John 7:37).
I will satisfy you and fill you.
Do you thirst to be cherished?
I cherish you more than you can imagine
to the point of dying on a cross for you.
I Thirst for You. Yes, that is the
only way to even begin to describe
My love for you. I THIRST FOR YOU.
I thirst to love you and to be loved by you
that is how precious you are to Me.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
Come to Me, and I will fill your
heart and heal your wounds.
I will make you a new creation,
and give you peace, even in all your trials
I THIRST FOR YOU.
You must never doubt My mercy, My acceptance of you,
My desire to forgive, My longing to bless you
and live My life in you.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
If you feel unimportant in the eyes of the world,
that matters not at all.
For Me, there is no one any more important
in the entire world than you.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
Open to Me, come to Me, thirst for Me,
give me your life - and I will prove to you
how important you are to My Heart.
Dont you realise that My Father
already has a perfect plan to
transform your life,
beginning from this moment?
Trust in Me.
Ask me every day to enter and
take charge of your life - and I will.
I promise you before My Father in heaven
that I will work miracles in your life.
Why would I do this? Because
I THIRST FOR YOU.
All I ask of you is that you entrust
yourself to Me completely. I will do all the rest.
Even now I behold the place
My Father has prepared for you in My Kingdom.
Remember that you are a pilgrim in this life,
on a journey home.
Sin can never satisfy you, or bring
the peace you seek.
All that you have sought outside of Me
has only left you more empty,
so do not cling to the things of this life.
Above all, do not run from Me when you fall.
Come to Me without delay.
When you give Me your sins, you gave Me
the joy of being your Saviour.
There is nothing I cannot forgive and heal;
so come now, and unburden your soul.
No matter how far you may wander,
no matter how often you forget Me,
no matter how many crosses you may
bear in this life; there is one thing
I want you to always remember,
one thing that will never change.
I THIRST FOR YOU - just as you are.
You dont need to change
to believe in My love,
for it will be your belief
in My love that will change you.
You forget Me, and yet I am seeking you
every moment of the day - standing at the door
of the your heart and knocking.
Do you find this hard to believe?
Then look at the cross, look at My Heart
that was pierced for you.
Have you not understood My cross?
Then listen again to the words I spoke there
for they tell you clearly why I endured
all this for you: "I THIRST..." (John 19:28).
Yes, I thirst for you - as the rest of the psalm verse
I was praying says of Me: "I looked for love,
and I found none..." (Psalm 69:20).
All your life I have been looking
for your love - I have never stopped
seeking to love you and be loved by you.
You have tried many other things
in your search for happiness; why not try
opening your heart to Me, right now,
more than you ever have before.
Whenever you do open the
door of your heart, whenever you come
close enough, you will hear me say to you
again and again, not in mere human words
but in spirit. "No matter what you have done,
I love you for your own sake. Come to Me
with your misery and your sins, with your
troubles and needs, and with all your longing
to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart
and knock. Open to Me, for I THIRST FOR YOU..."
"Jesus is God, therefore His love,
His Thirst, is infinite. He is the creator
of the universe, asked for the love of His creatures.
He thirsts for our love...These words: 'I Thirst'
Do they echo in our souls?"
Mother Teresa
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Mons.G Sergio De la Cerda Z.
Vicar General
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico
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